No News Is Bad News

It’s hard out there for an investigative journalist these days, particularly with budgets being slashed and publications shuttered right and left. At CNN, an entire arm of the company — its investigative journalism unit — is now gone. So where have the hardworking reporters who used to work there scampered off to? More lucrative industries, it seems — like the fake news show business. The Daily Show took a look at this exodus from thankless truth-telling to the world of profitable television — and even uncovered a Will McAvoy cameo.